Bag-holder



No. 625,|34. Patented May l6, I899. J. A. ANDERSON.

BAG HOLDER.

(Application filed Sept. 12, 1898.)

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JOHN A. ANDERSON, OF AUSTIN, MINNESOTA.

BAG-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,134, dated May 16,1899.

Appli i n file September 12, 1898. Serial No. 690,749. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, JOHN A. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States,residing'at Austin, in the county of Mower and State of Minnesota, haveinventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Holders, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to bag-holders, and particularly to the class ofgrain-bag holders.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved novel device forholding grain or other bags for filling of peculiar construction andarrangement of parts.

The invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, andcombination of parts. V

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of lhisapplication, Figure 1is a perspeclive view of the device holding a bag open. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of one of the arms and its pivot-plate.

The same numeral references denote the same parts throughout bothfigures of the drawings.

The hanger consists of an angle-iron 1, havin g hooks 2 on the verticalportion to engage a wall-bracket or projection 3 or other suitableobject to suspend the same, though the said hooks may be dispensed withand the hanger secured in place in any desirable manner.

L-shaped plates 4 are secured to the horizontal portion of the hanger 1by means of pivots 5, extending through the long arm of the plates andthrough the said hanger. The short arm of the pivot plates depends overthe front edge of the hanger and has one end of the bag stretcher arms 6secured thereto. These arms are of thin metal, so as to give themsufficient flexibility to form a semicircle when holding a bag and berelaxed out of such curve when disengaged with the bag, and the otherends of said arms have curved or inturned free ends.

Owing to the angular shape of the hangeriron,the vertical portionthereof forms a rigid back for suspension and the horizontal portionthereof a projecting base or bed upon which the long arm of the L-shapedplates works on pivots. The short arm of said plates extends below thesaid horizontal portion, at right angles thereto, so that there is novertical spring or tendency of the parts to sag in holding a bag, butthe latter takes around 7 The hanger 1 is provided with verticalstoppins 9, which control theoutward movement of the pivot-plates, theinward movement of said plates being controlled by the spring 8.

By reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that owing to the peculiar shape,spring tension, and flexibility of the arms the mouth of the bag isstretched into semicircular form, leaving the front edge of thebag-mouth practically straight and well drawn, which is a greatadvantage in bag or sack filling.

It is obvious that the spring has only to be compressed to shorten thereach of the stretcher-arms in order to insert them in the mouth of abag, whereupon the spring is allowed to expand and force thepivot-plates apart, and thereby extend the reach of the arms and stretchthe bag open, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

AlthoughI have shown the pivot-plates and arms made separate and thelugs or projec tions riveted in place, all of these parts may be made inone and the same piece.

Having thus described my invention, What Iclaim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is g 1. In a bag-holder, the combination, withthe angle-iron forming a hanger, and having means for suspending it, andthe vertical stop-pins on the hanger,of the spring-controlled platespivoted to and depending at right angles from the hanger, to permit thebag-mouth to take around the depending parts of said plates withoutengaging the hanger, and the flexible stretcher-arms secured to the saiddepending parts, and adapted to be bent in a curve from one end to theother when holding a bag and relaxed out of such curve when disengagedwith the bag, substantially as set forth.

2. In a bag-holder, the combination, with the hanger comprising verticaland horizontal portions, means on the vertical portion to suspend thehanger, and vertical stop-pins on the horizontal portion, of theL-shaped plates pivoted at one end on the horizontal portion between thestop-pins, the other end of said plates depending at right angles fromthe front edge of said horizontal portion and controlled in theiroutward movement by said pins, a spring between the depending ends tocontrol the inward movement, and the flexible stretcher-arms having oneend secured to the said depending ends, and the 10 other end left freeand curved inward, substantially as set forth.

In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of tWowitnesses.

JOHN A. ANDERSON. Witnesses:

H. J. DROST, 'E. H. STERLING.

